I guess I haven’t been paying attention, because I didn’t know that a sequel was coming out (as opposed to the regular rumors of one we’ve been getting for the last 30 years or so :))
Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Screenplay is co-written by Hampton Fancher, who co-wrote the original film.
I’m cautiously optimistic.
Well, that looks appropriately murky and ominous.
Nice street shot at the beginning with what looks like nightmarish street-sweepers down the block a ways.
I’m cautiously optimistic, too. Even if it isn’t a top-rated film, I still just love the look of a Ridley Scott movie and will see it for that alone.
Villeneuve is a great director. I can’t wait to see this.
I’m optimistic, as well. Dick had a murky idea of what he was questioning when he asked what makes us human, Scott was in the same boat. As long as Villeneuve doesn’t think he has figured it out, it’ll probably be a treat.
Yeah, looks great. BTW I didn’t know that director Ridley Scott had confirmed that Deckard was a replicant in the original movie, although I don’t know if Villeneuve will follow suit. See this short Ridley Scott interview on Youtube.
Oh, COOL!
Man, I hope they completely avoid answering the question of whether Deckard is a replicant in this one. The fact that that was unanswered in the original was essential to making it work. I’ve heard rumors that the Director’s Cut changed that, but if so, it was a big mistake.
Given the ability to create replicants and implant memories, there is no reason to suppose at this point that the Deckard in the new movie is the same Deckard in the original.
I like the original intro voice over (the ending one is bad), so it’s nice to see the trailer effectively doing a Deckard voice over.
The technological (societal, advertising, etc.) jump from 1982 to 2019 in the original Blade Runner is astonishing. But it doesn’t seem that there is all that much advancement in the next 30 years. Maybe they’ll have cell phones then.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
No Atari, Bell, Pan Am? Wow, things have changed in 2049.
I’m definitely looking forward to this, but I think it’s a shame that Sean Young won’t be in it. Poor Sean.
And I guess from the title that they’re embracing the series as being in another timeline, not just a little further into the future than originally advertised. That might be the right decision, but it seems a bit odd. Maybe that’s going to be the new normal for science fiction: Independence Day seems to be going the same route.
I love the original, and this promo looks good. I am firmly of the opinion that Deckard was not a replicant - Ford thought the same during filming, he’s said in interviews. It was only later that Scott said he was a replicant, and added the telltale eye reflection in his scene with Rachael, I suspect just to stir the pot a bit (and perhaps sell more DVDs of the Director’s Cut). The movie works better and is more compelling if Deckard, a human, becomes less inhumane, while the replicants, being inhuman, come to discover a sense of their own humanity.
And the unicorn! Can’t be a Blade Runner “Is Deckard a replicant?” conversation without unicorns
I thought this trailer looked terrible. I think the whole idea of the movie sounds terrible.
I’ll be very surprised if they manage to catch lightning in a bottle again and come up with a worthy sequel to Blade Runner, but this trailer makes it look like they’re doing their best to do so.
Agreed.
'Member replicants? 'Member tears in rain?
I hope it just wasn’t wishfulness on my part but the music did sound a bit Vangelis-esque. That would be essential for me to enjoy the sequel.
Oh, I member.